Improvement in corn-planters



YOUNG I. EDWARDS, OF TRENTON, TENNESSEE.

Letters Patent No. 110,837, dated January 10, 1871. l

I IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

The Sol 1951110 referred to in these Letters Patent and maldhg part of thellamg.

I, Youne I. EDWARDS, of Trenton, Gibson county, Tennessee, have invented certain Improvements in Corn-Planters, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1. is a sideelevation, and- Figure 2 is a plan view.

The invention consists in the combination of the plow-beam with the pitmau,,whiuh connects cranks on the axles of the master and dropping-wheels; a guard, that incloses said pitman and is fastened at its extremities to the plow-beam; and a recessed plate placed between the pitman and the plow-beam, fztst ened at its ends to the latter, and iuclosing the pitman between itselt'aud the guard, both the plate and the guard being provided with longitudinal slots, into which trunnious from the pitman enter, and in which said trunnious play as the pitinan moves back and forth and thus steady the latter in its movements.

In the drawing c is the plow-beam 5 b, the seed-box, resting in a recess in the upper part of the beam;

c, the dropping-wheel within the seed-box;

(Z-the hollow plow-share, so;- in the lower side of the beam a in the samerecess that holds the seedbox;

I c, the sliding plate in the real part of the hollow plow; v

f, the master-wheel;

It, the crank upon the axle of the same;

1:, thepitmau which connects the two cranks; I, the guard that incloses the pit nan t-he pitrnan.

YOUNG I. EDWARDS.

Witnesses:

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i, the crank upon the axle of the dropping-wheel; I

m, the recessed plate on the opposite side of the ing protection and imparting-steadiness of motion to 

